- Paperback: 324 pages
- Publisher: Golgonooza Press (1 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954509110
- ISBN-13: 978-0954509118
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,662,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pigeons are taking over the world. Uniting as a collective consciousness, flocks of urban pigeons seek total world domination. All that stands between them and victory is the Pigeon Resistance, a popular international movement rooted in the Internet.
Stuck in the middle in London is Ant, a web developer who finds himself caught up in what may just be the end of the world. Ant is a member of Generation X++, born in the 1970s and about to inherit the earth. Struggling with the disillusionment he sees in an everyday life of rain, trains and console games, he watches as the people closest to him tear themselves apart over the Pigeon Conspiracy. Will he be carried away too, or will he unleash a few surprises of his own?
About the Author
Andrew Wood is a member of Generation X++. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1977, grew up in South Africa and currently lives in London, where he makes websites for a living. The Pigeon Conspiracy is his first novel.
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DEDICATIONS
Thank you to:
Joanna Legutko, for being ideal reader number one.
The South Park Road gang, for inspiration.
And my parents, for nature and nurture.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A novel about a conspiracy or a conspiracy about a novel?,
By Richard Atkins (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pigeon Conspiracy (Paperback)
Great debut novel by Andrew Wood! The first novel I've read that successfully captures the mood and ideals of a previously mislabeled generation (with all due respect to Douglas Coupland, move over Microserfs, bring on Generation X++). As a member of Generation X++, the possible generation, I could strongly identify with the characters and even see bits of them in my own circle of friends. Additionally in a world full of blurred boundaries between reality, reality TV and fiction, you'll find it's not at all hard to see plausibility in the absurdity of pigeons seeking world domination. Kudos aside, is this a novel about a conspiracy or a conspiracy about a novel? A quick review of the references at the back of the novel, coupled with a quick search of google throws up some interesting reading. Go on give it a try... 'pigeon conspiracy' Why does Ken Livingstone not want us to feed the pigeons? Maybe Andrew Wood knows...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An intelligent, funny and ambitious novel,
By Miss J A NICOL (Hastings, East Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Pigeon Conspiracy (Paperback)
I have just finished reading this book, having been unable to put it down. It's great - the concept and the execution of it brilliant. The descriptive passages are wonderful - so well observed, intensely colourful, often hilarious and the use of languauge, employing 'techy' terminology in surprising, original and often poetic ways makes for great reading. The themes that run throughout and underline the plot are universal, generational and existential. As someone a decade older than the author, I found that I could empathise with the central character, Ant, in his struggle with the chasm between the promise of a future and the quest for meaning and place in the present. The juxtaposition of the infrastructure of the past and the possibility of global communication is both funny and surreal. The characters are convinicing and the dialogue, again laced with the quirky language of a computer guy's world, is spot on. I totally endorse the view that this book should be published by an enormous publisher very soon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pigeons of the apocalypse.,
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This review is from: The Pigeon Conspiracy (Paperback)
It’s inevitable: This writer is destined to be snatched up by a large and respected publisher! The prose style combines Chuck Paulanik’s stylistic rhythms (Fight Club, Survivor, Diary) and the hip insights and cultural observations of Douglas Coupland (Microserfs, Hey Nostrodamus!). The characterisation is brilliant: they are all jaded by technologies false promise, who are questing but lacksidaisical, romantic but oblivious, all of them floundering between a growing dissatisfaction –their work- and the Life after the prophesied apocalyptic Y2K. The uniformity of their mindset may be a weakness, but it does have the virtue of showing how they’re victims of the same palsied cultural landscape. This is a book about displacement and control, but its also about friendship and freedom. Read this book! Be among the select few, who in years to come, will owna copy, of what will be, a rare and collectible first edition novel by a major talent.
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